std::assoc_legendre, std::assoc_legendref, std::assoc_legendrel

 

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assoc_laguerreassoc_laguerrefassoc_laguerrel   assoc_legendreassoc_legendrefassoc_legendrel betabetafbetal comp_ellint_1comp_ellint_1fcomp_ellint_1l comp_ellint_2comp_ellint_2fcomp_ellint_2l comp_ellint_3comp_ellint_3fcomp_ellint_3l cyl_bessel_icyl_bessel_ifcyl_bessel_il

cyl_bessel_jcyl_bessel_jfcyl_bessel_jl   cyl_bessel_kcyl_bessel_kfcyl_bessel_kl cyl_neumanncyl_neumannfcyl_neumannl ellint_1ellint_1fellint_1l ellint_2ellint_2fellint_2l ellint_3ellint_3fellint_3l expintexpintfexpintl

hermitehermitefhermitel laguerrelaguerreflaguerrel legendrelegendreflegendrel riemann_zetariemann_zetafriemann_zetal sph_besselsph_besselfsph_bessell sph_legendresph_legendrefsph_legendrel sph_neumannsph_neumannfsph_neumannl

 

Defined in header <cmath>
	(1)
float       assoc_legendre ( unsigned int n, unsigned int m, float x ); double      assoc_legendre ( unsigned int n, unsigned int m, double x ); long double assoc_legendre ( unsigned int n, unsigned int m, long double x );			(since C++17) (until C++23)
/* floating-point-type */ assoc_legendre( unsigned int n, unsigned int m,                                           /* floating-point-type */ x );			(since C++23)
float       assoc_legendref( unsigned int n, unsigned int m, float x );		(2)	(since C++17)
long double assoc_legendrel( unsigned int n, unsigned int m, long double x );		(3)	(since C++17)
Additional overloads
Defined in header <cmath>
template< class Integer > double      assoc_legendre ( unsigned int n, unsigned int m, Integer x );		(A)	(since C++17)

1-3) Computes the Associated Legendre polynomials of the degree n, order m, and argument x. The library provides overloads of std::assoc_legendre for all cv-unqualified floating-point types as the type of the parameter x.(since C++23)

A) Additional overloads are provided for all integer types, which are treated as double.

Parameters

n	-	the degree of the polynomial, an unsigned integer value
m	-	the order of the polynomial, an unsigned integer value
x	-	the argument, a floating-point or integer value

Return value

If no errors occur, value of the associated Legendre polynomial \(\mathsf{P}_n^m\)Pm
n of x, that is \((1 - x^2) ^ {m/2} \: \frac{ \mathsf{d} ^ m}{ \mathsf{d}x ^ m} \, \mathsf{P}_n(x)\)(1-x2
)m/2

dm

dxm

P
n(x), is returned (where \(\mathsf{P}_n(x)\)P
n(x) is the unassociated Legendre polynomial, std::legendre(n, x)).

Note that the Condon-Shortley phase term \((-1)^m\)(-1)m
is omitted from this definition.

Error handling

Errors may be reported as specified in math_errhandling

• If the argument is NaN, NaN is returned and domain error is not reported
• If |x| > 1, a domain error may occur
• If n is greater or equal to 128, the behavior is implementation-defined

Notes

Implementations that do not support C++17, but support ISO 29124:2010, provide this function if __STDCPP_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS__ is defined by the implementation to a value at least 201003L and if the user defines __STDCPP_WANT_MATH_SPEC_FUNCS__ before including any standard library headers.

Implementations that do not support ISO 29124:2010 but support TR 19768:2007 (TR1), provide this function in the header tr1/cmath and namespace std::tr1.

An implementation of this function is also available in boost.math as boost::math::legendre_p, except that the boost.math definition includes the Condon-Shortley phase term.

The first few associated Legendre polynomials are:

Function	Polynomial
assoc_legendre(0, 0, x)	1
assoc_legendre(1, 0, x)	x
assoc_legendre(1, 1, x)	(1 - x2 )1/2
assoc_legendre(2, 0, x)	1 2 (3x2 - 1)
assoc_legendre(2, 1, x)	3x(1 - x2 )1/2
assoc_legendre(2, 2, x)	3(1 - x2 )

The additional overloads are not required to be provided exactly as (A). They only need to be sufficient to ensure that for their argument num of integer type, std::assoc_legendre(int_num1, int_num2, num) has the same effect as std::assoc_legendre(int_num1, int_num2, static_cast<double>(num)).

Example

Run this code

#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
 
double P20(double x)
{
    return 0.5 * (3 * x * x - 1);
}
 
double P21(double x)
{
    return 3.0 * x * std::sqrt(1 - x * x);
}
 
double P22(double x)
{
    return 3 * (1 - x * x);
}
 
int main()
{
    // spot-checks
    std::cout << std::assoc_legendre(2, 0, 0.5) << '=' << P20(0.5) << '\n'
              << std::assoc_legendre(2, 1, 0.5) << '=' << P21(0.5) << '\n'
              << std::assoc_legendre(2, 2, 0.5) << '=' << P22(0.5) << '\n';
}

Output:

-0.125=-0.125
1.29904=1.29904
2.25=2.25

See also

legendrelegendreflegendrel (C++17)(C++17)(C++17)

Legendre polynomials (function)

External links

Weisstein, Eric W. "Associated Legendre Polynomial." From MathWorld — A Wolfram Web Resource.